SUPERIOR COURT -- Negotiations of a possible plea offer are ongoing for Teresa Verbout, the Sparta woman accused of causing the motor vehicle accident that took the life of a Mount Olive man on Route 15 in Sparta in December 2015.

In court Wednesday, her attorney, Daniel Colfax, told Judge William J. McGovern III that he needed more time to allow discussions to continue.

The state had no objections.

Verbout, 52, was indicted by a Sussex County grand jury in May 2016 on charges of first-degree aggravated manslaughter and second-degree vehicular homicide. She pleaded not guilty to the charges in June 2016.

She is accused of causing the death of Robert Hunter III by driving her 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee in excess of 70 miles per hour in the wrong/opposite direction on southbound Route 15 and hitting Hunter's Toyota Corolla head-on at about 11:06 p.m. Dec. 8, 2015.

Hunter was pronounced dead at the scene.

Verbout suffered serious injuries to her lower extremities.

The prosecutor's office has previously said that Verbout's blood alcohol level was higher than .20, more than twice the illegal limit of .08.

Verbout is being held in the Sussex County jail in lieu of $400,000 bail with no 10 percent option.

Her next appearance is scheduled for June 29.

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